Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers gouged thousands of miles of canals into South Florida’s soggy landscape to drain the Everglades for development and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ten days before Christmas, a distraught South Florida homeowner called Michael Ronquillo about a snake in her neighbor’s yard.

Recently, a python was found tucked inside the engine compartment of a tractor-trailer parked near a Miami residence The nonvenomous constrictor snakes are native to South Asia, but since being ...

There are snakes like the ones you see in slithering in your backyard garden on occasion. Then there are snakes like the one Carl Jackson encountered earlier this month. Jackson, who is a full-time, ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was about 2 in the morning when Claudilio Cruz, a member of a road crew spreading asphalt on U.S. 1 in the affluent Miami suburb of Pinecrest, heard frantic honking. When he ...

Engineers gouged thousands of miles of canals into South Florida’s soggy landscape to drain the Everglades for development and protect from floods. Decades later, the watery lacing that runs through ...

Experts believe the snakes may be dispersing from the Everglades as their population grows, using connected waterways as highways. While not considered an overwhelming threat to humans, pythons can ...